I drove to this place of rolling hills and misty valleys with a few questions on my mind: Can there really be such a thing as an all-straight county? If so, what is it like to be someone who never has met a gay person? Do you just watch "Glee" and figure it out?

If there are gay people in Franklin County, what keeps them hidden?

I spent a few days searching for answers before I realized I was making the wrong assumptions: It's not that gay people here (or anywhere really) want to be in the closet, necessarily. It's the rest of the world that pushes them in and shuts the door.

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Yes, I'm including the 100 years before the Mississippi Territory became a state.

There were Black Mississippians who were murdered for factors having to do with race and were never counted in the lynching statistics, but their families knew what happened to them.

In PBS' "Eyes On The Prize" we were reminded that when they searched Mississippi rivers for the bodies of Schwerner, Goodman and Cheney there were other Black bodies that turned up whose deaths had not been recorded as "lynchings".

Yes, thousands.

Posted by: Derrick from Philly | Mar 25, 2013 4:20:29 PM

Got specifics?

Posted by: Hagatha | Mar 25, 2013 4:32:07 PM

About 8,000 blacks are killed by blacks in the US each year.

Posted by: Hagatha | Mar 25, 2013 4:39:06 PM

It's well done. I don't see how telling the truth about the south is having an anti-southern bias.